Employment and unemployment of fathers without spouses

The father was employed in 76.6 percent of these families, down from 82.8 percent in 2008. In 2009, the father was unemployed in the remaining 23.4 percent of these families, up from 17.2 percent in 2008.

These data are from the Current Population Survey program. See "Employment Characteristics of Families — 2009" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL-10-0721, to learn more.